Influence and social reinforcement from the external social media may lead to a contagion of toxic behaviors and may affect the users' learning trajectory.
Under these conditions, curb the influence (eg. balancing toxic external recommendations with healthier contents and links) it can be functional to collective well-being as in the case of deradicalization.
However, before applying any recommendation strategy aimed at changing the influence and network structure, the CWB-RS must distinguish between social influence and homophily [1]}, [2]}, even adopting exploratory strategies [3]}.
